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10:50 AM ET, August 29, 2008

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Microsoft to Acquire Greenfield Online Including Its European Subsidiary Ciao, a Leading European Price Comparison and Shopping Site  —  Microsoft Corp today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenfield Online Inc, owner of Ciao GmbH, one of Europe's leading price comparison …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Beats Quadrangle To Buy Research Firm Greenfield For $486 Million; Selling Off Most Of It  —  In a complex and slightly confusing transaction, Greenfield Online, the online market research and surveys company, which earlier this week rejected a bid by media PE firm Quadrangle …
Business Wire:
Greenfield Online Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Microsoft …
Discussion: Voices
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis?  —  Judy Estrin, who has built several Silicon Valley companies and was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, says Silicon Valley is in trouble.  In a new book, “Closing the Innovation Gap,” which will be in bookstores Tuesday …
Android Developers Blog:
Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I  —  Since we started the first Android Developer Challenge late last year, we all have been eager to see who the winners of $275,000 and $100,000 would be.  All 50 applications that emerged from Round 1 of ADC I showed great promise …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
The Google Android Challenge Winners  —  Google announced the winners of the first phase of the Android Developer Challenge.  Android is the mobile operating system and software library to-be pushed by Google and others.  Here are some of the ideas whose creators received $275,000 …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan  —  According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbreaking one's phone.
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast 250GB Cap Goes Live October 1 - Updated: Comcast confirms our story...  Back in May I broke the news that in addition to throttling back high-consumption users to “DSL like speeds,” Comcast was considering implementing a 250GB monthly cap as part of their shift toward “protocol agnostic” network management.
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:   Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold set to be released on AT&T on October 2nd?  —  Consider this a pretty solid bit of info, though it has not been double or triple confirmed like we normally like to do, and well, we saw what happened with Rogers.  We've heard from pretty high up source at AT&T that they're aiming …
Discussion: Gadgetell, BB Geeks and CrunchGear
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
BlackBerry Bold Hitting Sept. 12 for $299, Say AT&T Employees
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
BlackBerry Bold Review
Discussion: Electronista
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Novell: Quietly developing some momentum  —  Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line.  Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations.  —  That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought.
Discussion: Datamation
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Napster: 'We're Open To A Sale'; Vote NO On The Ice Cream Franchisee  —  Troubled online music retailer Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has hired UBS (again) to explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale.  The news was made in a letter to shareholders, urging them not to vote for three outside activists …
Discussion: Webware.com and PDA
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Sex ads on Denver Craigslist spike with Democrats' arrival  —  DENVER—An unusual phenomenon has recently appeared on Craigslist's Denver Web site.  Sex-wanted ads spiked this week, which happens to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.  —  Ads seeking casual sexual encounters through …
Discussion: WebProNews and Digg
Agence France Presse:
Millions of young Chinese addicted to ‘unhealthy’ Internet games: report  —  BEIJING (AFP) - Around four million Chinese youngsters are addicted to the Internet, mainly attracted by “unhealthy” online games, state media reported Friday, citing a top legislator.
Discussion: GamesIndustry.biz
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
The Golden Age of Streaming  —  Comcast's decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it.  Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era.  As the Olympics drew to a close with big numbers - 75.5 million streams …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Shuts Down Mash, 0-4 On Social Networking  —  First came 360, launched in 2005 as an early attempt to get Yahoo into social networking, was unceremoniously shut down earlier this year.  In 2006 Yahoo was unable to close a transaction with Facebook, despite being willing to pay up to $1.62 billion.
 
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Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Dell spills some more Inspiron 910 technical details
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Microsoft fails to buy Yahoo, so it buys...some European comparison shopping sites?
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Tod / PhysOrg.com:
Japanese firms plan solar-powered cargo ship
Discussion: DailyTech and Engadget
GamesIndustry.biz:
Will Wright: E3 is “the walking dead”
AnandTech:
Hell Freezes Over: NVIDIA Announces Native SLI Support for the Intel X58 Chipset
Kris Graft / Edge Online:
PS3 Targeted in Blu-ray Suit
Priya Ganapati / Wired News:
Once Mighty Bell Labs Leaves Behind Transistor, Laser, 6 Nobels
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Bloomberg:
Google to Start Yahoo Deal by October, Schmidt Says
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Growing Cynicism Around Going Green
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
WiMax's Invisible Power
Discussion: Sidecut Reports
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Album-loving artists blame iTunes for changed music tastes
Discussion: New York Magazine, MacUser and Digg
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple promises September fix for iPhone security flaw
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Bank Changes Man's Password After They Realize It Insults Them
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CBC News:
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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